A couple of days ago I ran into an old chessplaying friend at the local mall and he told me he runs Arena and had recently downlo...

...or good quick thinking?      A few years ago I posted about this incident in the forum at Chessworld and it created quite a stir. ...

     Cardoso (25 December 1937 – 21 August 2013) was a Filipino International Master. He was born in Anda, Pangasinan. In 1956, he won ...

What does White play in this position from Christensen vs. Browne, Las Vegas 1990? Highlight for answer: White should play 8.Bh4 beca...

Sometimes, just for amusement, I like to go back and reminisce over my old games and I came across this one. I remember my opponent was a d...

 ...by John Emms is a book I would recommend for anyone interested in learning positional basics. Be aware that the title Simple Ches...

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the Unite...

  Fairhurst in 1964     William Albert Fairhurst, CBE (21 August 1903, Alderly Edge, England - 13 March 1982, Howick, New Zealand) was b...

     In an article titled How to Get Good at Chess Fast , published in 2013, Gautam Narula offered two simple rules. In fact the rules appl...

     Piotr Wozniak is supposedly the inventor of a technique to turn people into geniuses. A portion of this technique, embodied in a soft...

     Years ago I played a correspondence game against an opponent from England who graciously mailed me a copy of the tournament book (with ...

Here’s an interesting site with a lot of material that you can arrange to your own liking to include whatever interests you. To quote fro...

When I got rid of almost all of my chess books a couple of years ago, 500 Master Games by Tartakower and Dumont was one of the keepers...

     GM Lubosh Kavalek has some very fine articles on the Huffington Post . The name Kavalek may not mean much to a lot of today’s player...

      The Northwest Chess website contains news from Washington and Oregon and is an interesting site worth browsing. While looking it ...